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title: The indigenous Temuan people may have inhabited the area for some ti… — Kuala Lumpur · tree and pragmatics
description: The indigenous Temuan people may have inhabited the area for some time, Chinese miners were known to be involved in tin mining up the Selangor River in the 1840s about 10 mi north of present-day Kuala Lumpur, and Mandailing Sumatrans led by Raja Asal and Sutan Puasa were also involved in tin mining 
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# Kuala Lumpur, sentence 32

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From Wikipedia, [«Kuala Lumpur»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The indigenous Temuan people may have inhabited the area for some time, Chinese miners were known to be involved in tin mining up the Selangor River in the 1840s about 10 mi north of present-day Kuala Lumpur, and Mandailing Sumatrans led by Raja Asal and Sutan Puasa were also involved in tin mining and trade in the Ulu Klang region before 1860, and Sumatrans may have settled in the upper reaches of Klang River in the first quarter of the 19th century, or possibly earlier.

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**Who acts:** Mandailing, upper · **What happens:** inhabit, know, be, mine up, mandail, lead · **To what, where:** indigenous Temuan people, Chinese miners, tin, Selangor River, 1840s, Sumatrans

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Kuala Lumpur». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mandailing, upper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Kuala_Lumpur:32
# text = The indigenous Temuan people may have inhabited the area for some time, Chinese miners were known to be involved in tin mining up the Selangor River in the 1840s about 10 mi north of present-day Kuala Lumpur, and Mandailing Sumatrans led by Raja Asal and Sutan Puasa were also involved in tin mining and trade in the Ulu Klang region before 1860, and Sumatrans may have settled in the upper reaches of Klang River in the first quarter of the 19th century, or possibly earlier.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	indigenous	indigenous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Temuan	Temuan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux	_	_
7	inhabited	inhabit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	area	area	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	Chinese	Chinese	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	miners	miner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	involved	involved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	mining	mine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Selangor	Selangor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	1840s	1840	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Card	23	obl	_	_
31	about	about	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	mi	mi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	north	north	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	Kuala	Kuala	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
40	Lumpur	Lumpur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
43	Mandailing	mandail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	54	csubj	_	_
44	Sumatrans	Sumatran	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	43	obj	_	_
45	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl	_	_
46	by	by	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Raja	Raja	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	obl:agent	_	_
48	Asal	Asal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	flat	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	Sutan	Sutan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
51	Puasa	Puasa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	flat	_	_
52	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	cop	_	_
53	also	also	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	involved	involved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	_
57	mining	mining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obl	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	_
60	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
62	Ulu	Ulu	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	64	compound	_	_
63	Klang	Klang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	62	flat	_	_
64	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	_
65	before	before	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
66	1860	1860	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
68	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	72	cc	_	_
69	Sumatrans	Sumatran	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	72	nsubj:pass	_	_
70	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	72	aux	_	_
71	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	72	aux	_	_
72	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
73	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	76	mark	_	_
74	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	75	det	_	_
75	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	76	nsubj	_	_
76	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	72	advcl	_	_
77	of	of	ADP	IN	_	79	case	_	_
78	Klang	Klang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	79	compound	_	_
79	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	76	obl	_	_
80	in	in	ADP	IN	_	83	case	_	_
81	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	83	det	_	_
82	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	83	amod	_	_
83	quarter	quarter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	76	obl	_	_
84	of	of	ADP	IN	_	87	case	_	_
85	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	87	det	_	_
86	19th	19th	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Combi|NumType=Ord	87	amod	_	_
87	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	83	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
88	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	91	punct	_	_
89	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	91	cc	_	_
90	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	91	advmod	_	_
91	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
92	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inhabit** | may · perfect · passive |  | the indigenous Temuan people |  |  | before 1860; time | the area *obj*; early *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | past · passive |  | Chinese miners |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | tin |  | involved *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **mine up** | gerund |  | the Selangor River |  | the 1840s  10 mi |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent river=Theme in 1840=Location |
| 5 | **mandail** | gerund |  | Sumatrans |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **lead** | participle |  | Sumatrans *not said here* |  |  |  | Raja and Sutan *obl:agent* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 7 | **is** | past | Mandailing |  |  | tin mining in the Ulu region and trade |  | involved *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **settle** | may · perfect · passive |  | Sumatrans |  |  |  |  | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location |
| 9 | **reach** | present | the upper |  |  | the first quarter of the 19th century |  | of Klang River | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Kuala Lumpur», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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